Ability to customize slide layout

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We spend a lot of time in our company improving the graphics of Power Point
presentations, because we are not able to use Microsofts standard slide
layouts. If we were able to customize the many different slide layouts, we
could customize them to our own graphical standards - that way we could save
a lot of time. It does not sound too complicated to open up for
customizations of slide layouts...is it?


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Other than moving them around or changing colors, etc., you are stuck with
what Microsoft gives you regarding Layouts/Placeholders. You cannot create
your own or add placeholders to existng ones.

SORRY!

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Bill Foley
www.pttinc.com
Microsoft PowerPoint MVP
Microsoft Office Specialist Master Instructor
JLI said:
We spend a lot of time in our company improving the graphics of Power Point
presentations, because we are not able to use Microsofts standard slide
layouts. If we were able to customize the many different slide layouts, we
could customize them to our own graphical standards - that way we could save
a lot of time. It does not sound too complicated to open up for
customizations of slide layouts...is it?


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JLI,
What Bill Foley said. And I was as frustrated as most everyone is so I
wrote an addin that I think gets you mostly where you want to be by
creating "sort of placeholder shapes" in memory and allowing you to
add them from a custom menu or custom toolbars. It's not free but
those who are using it seem to like it a lot.

There's a downloadable demo at PPTools.com. Look for the ShapeStyles
addin.

Brian Reilly, PowerPoint MVP
 
Bill,

You mention that it is possible to move them around. Could you (or others)
tell me how I do that? E.g.: If I select Insert -> New Slide -> Text Layout
'Title & 2 column text' ... how would I fix it such that for the future the
two placeholders will appear further to the right on the slide?

BR,
Jesper
 
Bill,

You mention that it is possible to move them around. Could you (or others)
tell me how I do that? E.g.: If I select Insert -> New Slide -> Text Layout
'Title & 2 column text' ... how would I fix it such that for the future the
two placeholders will appear further to the right on the slide?
Click to expand...

All of the content placeholders (body text, graphs, stuff like that) get their size
and position from the body text placeholder on the slide master. If you don't mind
that all content be moved to the right, then move the body text placeholder on the
master and it's a done deal.

If you want to position body text one way, tw-column text another and graphs yet a
third way, you'd have to move the placeholder manually after inserting the new slide.

You could also write (or have written for you) custom macros in an addin that create
the slides and do all the shape-shuffling for you automatically.
 
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